There are people who think if a subject is sophisticated, like science, the language that describes it should be sophisticated, too. If smart people say torque, ribosome, limbic, stochastic and kinase, then the rest of us should knuckle down, concentrate and figure out what those words mean. That's how we'll know when we've learned something: when we've mastered the technical words. But suppose all you want to do is understand how something works. more